Richard Edgcumbe, 2nd Earl of Mount Edgcumbe
- Richard Edgcumbe, 2nd Earl of Mount Edgcumbe
Richard Edgcumbe, 2nd Earl of Mount Edgcumbe (13 September 1764 – 26 September 1839) was an English nobleman, styled Lord Edgcumbe from 1781 to 1789 and Viscount Valletort from 1789 until his accession to the earldom in 1795.
He was the author of "Musical Reminiscences of the Earl of Mount Edgcumbe", containing a list of the operas he heard from 1773 to 1823 [Wayne Koestenbaum, "The Queen's Throat: Opera, Homosexuality and the Mystery of Desire", Gay Men's Press, 1994, page 17] . This book has been often cited by musicologists concerned with operatic history from Mozart to Rossini.
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